Kosta Pecanac

Kosta Pecanac (1879-June 1944) was a commander of the Chetniks of Serbia during World War II.

Biography
A veteran of the Serbian Army during World War I and the anti-Bulgaria Serbian rebels of the 1917 Toplica Uprising, Pecanac was popular among the Yugoslav Radical Union and other fascist groups due to his fierce hatred of communism, and in the late 1930s his movement of "Chetniks" reached over 500,000 members. During World War II, Pecanac collaborated with Nazi Germany against the Yugoslav Partisans of Josip Broz Tito, and he led an army of refugees fleeing from Macedonia and Kosovo against Albanian groups while not harming any Wehrmacht soldiers. In July 1942, rival Chetnik leader Draza Mihailovic had the Yugoslav government-in-exile denounce Pecanac as a traitor, and his 8,000 Chetniks were later abandoned by Nazi Germany, which saw him as unreliable. In March 1943, his Chetniks were disbanded, and in June 1944 he was murdered by Mihailovic's Chetniks in Nikolinac.